And when they found not his body,.... In the sepulchre, as they expected, and so could not do what they intended:they came; they returned from the sepulchre with great haste, and in a very great fright, and came to the disciples, where they were assembled;saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels.
The Syriac and Persic versions add, "there"; at the sepulchre, for there were two of them at least, if not three; see Lu 24:4. They not only reported, that they could not find the body of Jesus, but also that they had seen some angels: or the sense may be, that they told them, that though they could not find the dead body of their Lord, yet they had seen him alive, as they did by the way, as they were returning, Mt 28:9 and also that a vision of angels had appeared to them:which said that he was alive; see Lu 24:5.